Manufacturing the Tools of Music-African Musical Instruments

VOA reports on manufacturer, African Musical Instruments:

AMI employee Mark Komsana works with kiat wood to make kalimbas  Image by Darren Taylor

“My main input into the firm has been to encourage (it) to make traditional African instruments because they’re very scarce in Africa now,” said South African musicologist Andrew Tracey. “Very few people are making them.” His father, pioneer ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey, spent about 50 years recording music throughout sub-Saharan Africa before his death in 1977. Hugh Tracey started the business African Musical Instruments (AMI) in 1954, as a further way to preserve the continent’s musical heritage.

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